Hallyu — a Chinese term which means Korean Wave, in correlation to the culture loosely encompassing the popular theme of music, movies, food etc…. This term is used for the explosion of Korean culture reaching the various shores of the world mainly through the music-movie route. Well that’s turned into a tsunami in the past few …
The basic theme of Ready Player One has potential. We have all read newspaper reports about couples immersed in games like Age of Empires, Fortnite etc.forgetting to attend their own babies. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/05/korean-girl-starved-online-game)However, we have treated such deep level involvement in games as aberrations. RP1 turns this on its head and imagines a society where everyone …
For us earthlings, everything revolves around our lovely star Sun. Every civilization on earth, by some or the other way, kept Sun at their heart. As societies progressed, some of them sidelined him, some did not. Some societies still pray to Sun, either directly or indirectly. At least they have a ‘halo’ behind the head …